The following piece originally ran on the website Dear Producer and is being shared here courtesy of that website’s editor Rebecca Green, a Film Independent Fellow and Creative Advisor. Excerpts from Dear…
The following piece originally ran on the website Dear Producer and is being shared here courtesy of that website’s editor Rebecca Green, a Film Independent Fellow and Creative Advisor. Excerpts from Dear…
In this special guest post, indie filmmaker Kyle Kenyon takes us behind the scenes of his 2019 web series Schmotts, which continues to be programmed—and win awards!—at film festivals worldwide….
On May 5 Film Independent at LACMA hosted a screening of the season eight finale of the CNN travelogue series Parts Unknown. The episode was particularly special, with host Anthony…
What better way to get to know this year’s unique crew of Festival filmmakers than to pick their brains with a poll? We quizzed our filmmakers in the LA Film Fest’s LA Muse section,…
EDITOR’S NOTE: the below piece originally ran in January of this year. We’re re-posting it here with minor edits. Thanks to guest author Hamed Hokamzadeh. *** It sometimes feels like…
Documentarians face a tall task: the story is unfolding right in front of you and you have to capture it. So many problems rear their heads on a documentary set. The lighting might be…
On September 18 Newlyweeds hits theaters at the Film Forum in New York. It’s the story of a couple whose relationship revolves around their pot addiction and the difficult choices they…
Sun shining on Sunset Boulevard, the indie stars came out to the Hollywood Palladium – for the first time in 32 years when the Spirit Awards were last hosted here…
Filmmakers are image-oriented people (and we don’t just mean in terms of fashion, prestige or reputation, though there’s certainly that as well.) For a filmmaker—whatever their background—experiences are captured and…
A contemporary Western about the unlikely friendship between a young woman and an aging black cowboy set amid the dusty Texas rodeo circuit, Bull marks the second collaboration between writer/director…
Action movies may not be everyone’s cup of pyro-packed, slo-mo exploding tea. But fistfights, fast cars and high-flying feats of swashbuckling stunt work have been a part of the foundations…